Learned Quotes
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.
Chris Black
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya Angelou
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He says hes taking care of them the best he can, ... Weve never charged him because hes always cooperated with us. He tells us every time we come out here that hes not going to do this again. We thought he had learned his lesson, but evidently he hasnt.
Brian Walker
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Marcel Proust
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.
Eydie Gorme
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What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.
Eva Amurri
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul Desmond
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I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
Ernie Banks
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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
Dickey Betts
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I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
Branch Warren
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
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I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato
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I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.
Oprah Winfrey
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Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
Archimedes
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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
Diogenes
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
Katherine Jackson
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A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
Ray Kurzweil
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I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.
Shy Glizzy